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I know that the way to be a r...

I know that the way to be a really successful writer is to write the same kind of book over and over again. Find the kind of thing that people like and just write one of those over and over again. I don't do that. I just keep doing different things.

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If writing a novel is a year'...

If writing a novel is a year's exile to a foreign country, writing a short story is a weekend spent somewhere exotic. They're much more like vacations, more exciting and different, and you're off.

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We get to experience the same...

We get to experience the same thing in very different ways with different parts of ourselves.

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The best thing about doing a ...

The best thing about doing a signing tour is that numbers become faces. I got to sign books for six or seven thousand people, all of whom were dreadfully nice. Everything else, the interviews, the hotels, the plane travel, the best-seller lists, even the sushi, gets old awfully fast. Well, maybe not the sushi.

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I loved all books that I coul...

I loved all books that I could read, and I never knew if I was ready for it until I tried to read it, so I tried to read everything.

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If I'm writing a novel, I'll ...

If I'm writing a novel, I'll probably get up in the morning, do email, perhaps blog, deal with emergencies, and then be off novel-writing around 1.00pm and stop around 6.00pm. And I'll be writing in longhand, a safe distance from my computer. If I'm not writing a novel, there is no schedule, and scripts and introductions and whatnot can find themselves being written at any time and on anything.

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I don't believe in "writer's ...

I don't believe in "writer's block". I try and deal with getting stuck by having more than one thing to work on at a time. And by knowing that even a hundred bad words that didn't exist before is forward progress.

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Trees there were, old as tree...

Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees that some said walked in the night.

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Even if your goose habitually...

Even if your goose habitually lays golden eggs, it will still be cooked.

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Leave no path untaken. ...

Leave no path untaken.

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The biggest pitfall to avoid ...

The biggest pitfall to avoid is not writing. Not writing is really, really easy to do, especially if you're a young writer. The hope that elves will come in the night and finish it for you, is a very common one to have. That is my main recommendation - you have to write, and you have to finish what you write and beyond that, it's all detail.

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I don't think about age group...

I don't think about age groups when I write, although I think if I know I'm writing for Children I'll be a bit more ambitious, and think more about every word, because I know that they pay closer attention when they read than adults do.

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I very rarely want to go back...

I very rarely want to go back and fix things, because I'm much more interested in the next thing, and in taking what I learned from the things that don't work, and applying them to new things that may work.

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I love making things. I love ...

I love making things. I love building things. I love the idea that something's in the world that wasn't there before.

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Most of what I want to try to...

Most of what I want to try to do is continue to go places with fiction that I've never gone before, and tell stories I've never told before, and one of the problems you rapidly discover about fans is what fans want is the last thing they liked. They want more of that.

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The magic of comics is that t...

The magic of comics is that there are three people involved in any comic. There's whoever's writing it and whoever's drawing it. And then there's whoever's reading it because they are creating the movement. They are creating the illusion of time passing.

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Whereas there are lots of goo...

Whereas there are lots of good novels out there; there are a few good movies out there. People have been writing great poems for years, but there aren't a lot of good comics. I like trying to write them.

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None of us know where our sto...

None of us know where our stories come from. That's why writers make fun of people who ask us where we get our ideas... because we don't know.

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I'm probably slightly more fa...

I'm probably slightly more famous than I've been comfortable with. Famous enough to have my phone calls returned is about as famous as I want to be.

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Fiction takes us to places th...

Fiction takes us to places that we would never otherwise go, and puts us behind eyes that are not our own.

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